Questões de Concursos Públicos - Inglês

What is wrong about the news?

In the sentence, “Conway corrected herself on Friday in a post on Twitter, saying: "Honest mistakes abound." How can you retell what was said?

Complete the following sentence with the better phrasal verb according to the meaning in parenthesis: “I don't know why the teacher never (ask someone for an answer in class) you. You always know the answer.”

Choose the best synonym for “divert” in the following sentence: “She was trying to divert my attention from her inappropriate question about Lily's gift.”

“The experimental tutors may have _____________ like experts in the targeted text since they had been told that they _____________ received instruction while their tutees had not.”

Complete with the better modal verb: “Using a phone's speaker option _____________ allow the caregiver to do other tasks while waiting for a response.”

Thinking about teaching methodology, we can reflect that: I. Language learning is a process of habit formation. II. It is important for teachers to prevent student error since errors can lead to the formation of bad habits. III. Students should back out the sentence patterns of the target language. IV. Positive reinforcement helps students to develop correct habits. It is correct what it was said in:

Complete with the best adverb: “Never tell her how _____________ butter and cream you use.”

“The cognitive approach was a reaction to the behaviorist features of the audio-lingual approach, influenced by cognitive psychology and Chomskyan linguistics. Cognitive psychology (Neisser, 1967) holds that people do not learn complex systems like language or mathematics through habit formation but through the acquisition of patterns and rules that they can then extend and apply to new circumstances or problems.” On this approach, it is correct the following statement:

Complete with the best verb meaning and form: “The project ____________ at the home of Abdel Hernandez last year, when a group of artists had met to discuss recent episodes of censorship of art exhibitions and they had also thought of possible ways to respond.”